Name/Title
Mother Angelique HiverEntry/Object ID
2025.2.4Description
Title [assigned by archives]: Mother Angelique Hiver
In this waist-level painted photograph, Mother Angelique Hiver (1802 - 1881) wears the habit of the Sisters of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament while holding a Bible in front of her chest.
Mother Angelique Hiver was superior of the Monastery of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament in Lyon, France from which the first Incarnate Word Sisters came to Galveston, Texas. She answered the call of the Bishop of Texas, Father Claude Marie Dubuis, to send trained nurses to Texas during the cholera epidemic. Mother Angelique trained the first three Sisters, nurses from the Hospital of the Antiquaille in Lyon, to embark on their mission to Texas.
Título [asignado por los archivos]: Madre Angélica Hiver
En esta fotografía pintada a la altura de la cintura, la Madre Angélica Hiver (1802 - 1881) lleva el hábito de las Hermanas del Verbo Encarnado y del Santísimo Sacramento mientras sostiene una Biblia frente a su pecho.
Madre Angélica Hiver era la superiora del Monasterio del Verbo Encarnado y del Santísimo Sacramento en Lyon, Francia, desde donde las primeras Hermanas del Verbo Encarnado llegaron a Galveston, Texas. Respondió a la llamada del obispo de Texas, el padre Claude Marie Dubuis, para enviar enfermeras cualificadas a Texas durante la epidemia de cólera. La madre Angélica formó a las tres primeras hermanas, enfermeras del Hospital de la Antiquaille de Lyon, para que emprendieran su misión en Texas.Photograph Details
Type of Photograph
PaintedCollection
Foundations - Mother Angelique HiverMade/Created
Time Period
19th CenturyNotes
UndatedLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
PhotographNomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsGetty AAT
Concept
hand-colored photographsLOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Portrait photographs, NunsDimensions
Dimension Description
Dimensions with mat and frameHeight
25-1/2 inWidth
21-1/2 inDepth
1 in
